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"Popularized in England" - maybe popularized, but such walls are by no means popular or common. "The county of Suffolk seems to be home to countless examples o
by NeoTar 3y ago
"Popularized in England" - maybe popularized, but such walls are by no means popular or common.
"The county of Suffolk seems to be home to countless examples of these crinkle crankle walls. On freston.net you can find 100 wavy walls that have been documented and photographed."
Although it's not explicitly said, let's suppose that every one of those wavy walls is in Suffolk. The population of the county is 761 350 - let's assume there are 100 000 homes (although there is the city of Ipswitch, it's otherwise largely a rural county where single-family homes will be common). So only roughly one-in-one-thousand homes in Suffolk has such a 'wavy wall'. Elsewhere in the country probably even less - e.g. I've never seem one.
Any for everyone complaining about mowing - do you actually have grass all the way up to your boundary wall? In my experience it's pretty common to have a flower bed running all the length of the boundary, so mowing would not be a problem.
- em-bee 3y agoSo only roughly one-in-one-thousand homes in Suffolk has such a 'wavy wall' yes, but you also need to take into account how many homes have any brick wall at all.
- jon_adler 3y agoAnecdotally, I would say that flint stone walls are more common than wavy walls. I’ve see plenty of the former and none of the latter wham driving through the county.
- em-bee 3y agothat's not surprising. even without ever having been there i am aware of some areas of the british isles having a reputation for stone walls. but not for brick walls. which makes the question of the popularity of wavy brick walls even more interesting. how many non-wavy brick walls are there?
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